Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, [1881?]. Hardcover. 358p., 5.5x6.75 inch original green cloth boards titling in gilt; mild rubbing along spine and edges, corners lightly bumped, slight tilt to spine, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 295051
New York: Vantage Press, 1975. Hardcover. 79p., 5.5x8.25 inches, red boards, dj lightly shelfworn, very good. Letters to his family from a Finnish engineer who headed an oil drilling company in Baku, Azerbaijan in the 1880s. Well-written and nicely translated into English, they offer insights into life on the wind-swept..... More
Cat.No: 243124
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1969. Hardcover. xxxi, 455p., price clipped dj. Reprint, with a new introduction, of Tourgee's novel of the south set late in the Civil War, with considerable focus on race relations. The author, "Late Judge of the Superior Court of North Carolina", writes half the..... More
Cat.No: 52390
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1887. Hardcover. 47p., original brown cloth boards, illustrations and titling in gilt, third edition, boards heavily soiled foxed, and damp stained, resulting on discoloration, head of spine slightly chipped, pages browning, damage does not migrate onto pages, pencil notation on free endpaper, some pencil..... More
Cat.No: 286799
Detroit: The Labadie Shop, [190-?]. Pamphlet. Single sheet folded to make a 4 panel pamphlet, 3.5x5.5 inches, evenly toned, one spot of darker browning at bottom corner of rear wrap else very good condition. None found in OCLC as of 10/2020. More
Cat.No: 258213
New York: Monthly Review Press, 3014. Hardcover. 267p., quarter-cloth boards, 6.25x9.5 inches, very good condition in like dj. On the 1889 strike at Samuel Winkworth Silver's rubber and electrical factory. More
Cat.No: 269319
Washington: GPO, 1889. 631p., tables, original black cloth binding, spine lettering dulled. More
Cat.No: 8500
Washington: GPO, 1889. 631p., tables, original black cloth binding rubbed and worn and frayed on edges. More
Cat.No: 56297
San Francisco: Young Men's Democratic League, n.d. 8p., including cover; edgeworn wraps with Bancroft Library withdrawal stamps, edge chips not reaching text, areas of soil, pencil marginalia. OCLC lists only one copy as of 11/2021. Pamphlet 4. Circa 1890 publication advocating free trade as beneficial to wages. More
Cat.No: 138278
Madrid: Imprenta de Fortanet, 1881. Hardcover. xiii, 281p., text in Spanish, nineteenth century Spanish translation of all four books of the poem in one volume; very worn, insect-nibbled tan cloth (now toned) over severely edgeworn boards, spine titling in gilt is quite dim. As is. Virgil's "Georgics" in Spanish. More
Cat.No: 192536
San Francisco: Harr Wagner, 1885. 588-640p., magazine, about fifty pages of text printed double-column plus ads, paper is partly of alkaline and partly of acidic stock; sewn textblock in 9.5x6 inch wraps. Original thread in good shape, holding an intact textblock, but both covers are detached, fragile, edgeworn, and are..... More
Cat.No: 221501
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1883. xxiii, 312p., bound on the cheap with a couple long staples thru textblock, presswork on cream alkaline stock with just a touch of toning; the two-color wraparound cover is mildly eye-catching but inferior cardstock was used and front cover has cracked, detached, and is..... More
Cat.No: 263305
Hong Kong: John Warner Publications, 1981. Paperback. 112p., wraps, 9.25x12 inches, profusely illus., very good first edition. More
Cat.No: 271762
Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., 1888. Hardcover. 189p., original cloth binding rebacked (with a blank spine) with spots of professional restoration, some internal pencilling (one scribble) with occasionally severe handsoil, page 135/6 removed with a publisher's note on front paste down stating that the excision was done because of an..... More
Cat.No: 150459
Reading, [England]: Miss Langley, Lovejoy's Library, 1887. 105p., edges untrimmed, original 6x4 inch linen boards rather soiled and stained but quite sound, previous owner's book plate on front paste down, author's full name written in pen (neat minuscule) on title page. First edition of this utopian novel, which features religious..... More
Cat.No: 129845
Reading, [England]: Miss Langley, Lovejoy's Library, 1887. 105p., original cloth binding stained and spine darkened, 4x6 inches. First edition of this utopian novel, which features religious fervor and an anarchist exile community on a South Pacific Island. *Sargent p. 38. Negley 1156. More
Cat.No: 131114
Silver Spring: Phoenix Rising, 1983. Paperback. 72p., wraps, illus., very good condition. More
Cat.No: 151752
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970. Hardcover. xiii, 331p., black cloth boards gilt in glossy blue dust jacket, a very good clean copy. Author treats of Black people as 'Negroes', 'creoles' and 'coloured'. More
Cat.No: 228943
New York: Horizon Press, 1962. Paperback. 93p., wraps, old label on front wrap, spine sloped, previous owner's gift inscription, minor pen marginalia on two or three pages and a small stain to foredge, a decent reading copy only. Tributes and messages by Joshua Kunitz, Joseph Freeman, Josephine Herbst, Ella Winter..... More
Cat.No: 76556
Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1976. 256p., illus., dj worn at head of spine. More
Cat.No: 40000
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1880. Hardcover. vii, 309p. spine ends worn; ownership signature on blank flyleaf else good condition. "A few American communtarian groups are dealt with" *Egbert p. 95. More
Cat.No: 2424
Huron: University of South Dakota, Federal Writers Project, City Commission of Huron, South Dakota, 1942. Paperback. [iii] 90p., 8.5x11 inches, mimeographed sheets printed recto-only, illustrated with photos and a city map, front cover detached but present, otherwise very good in plain gray velour paper wraps. More
Cat.No: 177760
Osaka: Suzando, 1888, 1889. Two volumes only from the set, rebound as hardcovers, one with original color cover pasted to front board. Textblock appears to have been cropped for rebinding, but printed portion is entirely present. Cloth binding shows loss of sizing on one volume. Thoroughly illustrated Japanese-language travel guide..... More
Cat.No: 246069
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. Hardcover. x, 331p., illus., very good first edition in an unclipped dj with a sunned spine panel. "The impact of technological change on miners and their reaction, which included unionization and radicalism. WFM and IWW dominate the story in the last decade." *Miles 231..... More
Cat.No: 2450
Osaka: Aoki Suzando: Aoki Tsunesaburo 中尾清規堂, 1884. Two volumes, stiff wraps bound with thread in traditional format, light handling wear, very good. Date based on preface, composed in Meiji year 17. More
Cat.No: 220688
